Yearly Archive for 2013

: 2013

The Twitter message from New York Times editor Damon Darlin came minutes after the Federal Aviation Administration began a news conference announcing a change in policy on electronic devices on airplanes. Darlin pinned the credit for switch to a Tim… …

New safety video photo courtesy Virgin AmericaHigh fives and “You go girl!”, to Virgin America for its new safety video that has all the required information set to a rockin’ beat. Like Air New Zealand, Southwest and Cebu before it, and fingers-crossed… …

Tight shot of airplanes taken from a long, way off.There are not too many cameras that suit the needs of a frequently-traveling airplane geek who is fastidious about not only packinglight, but packing small. That’s why I bought the Lumix Panasonic ZS… …

An Air India 787 in Charleston, SC in 2012Getting information from Air India is not such an easy assignment. And as I learned from my readers and Jason Rabinowitz of @AirlineFlyer, information on the missing fuselage panel on an Air India Dreamliner re… …

Photo courtesy Times of IndiaTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT NEW INFORMATION:Boeing is confirming that a section of the underbelly of an Air India Dreamliner came off during landing, though spokesman Doug Alder will not say whether the plane is t… …

The joke about the mixed emotions when ones’ mother-in-law drives off a cliff in your brand-new-car surely must describe how Boeing feels today watching Tesla defend the lithium ion batteries powering its cars. Tuesday (while I was writing a nice litt… …

Conner, Photo courtesy BoeingLast year when he was given the job of piloting Boeing’s Commercial Airplane division into the next generation of aviation, Ray Conner told reporters he was “really excited” – and why not? The company was selling airplanes … …

The LOT Polish Dreamliner SP-LRB before it was groundedTake a good look at this Boeing 787 in flight, then remember, that’s not a sure thing with the troubled Dreamliner. In the most recent interruption, the six-month-old LOT Polish 787 tail number SP-… …

As if we were waiting in the passenger boarding area for news of a delayed flight, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is providing just the merest trickle of information about the airport hotel it has long promised to bring to John F. Kenned… …

Bjorn Kjos in the cockpit of a Norwegian 737About a year ago, Nancy Branka, my editor at Executive Travel magazine assigned me to interview Bjorn Kjos, the affable boss of the upstart airline, Norwegian. Give the gal credit, she knew long before the re… …